The Good Little Confucian Girl discovers her super-identity as the Hairy Arm-pitted Feminist, armed with magical gender-bending body odor that can change the course of patriarchal oppression. Super Ruwaxi: Origins mashes together theater, multimedia, and contemporary Indian dance to create a live comic-book story about queerness, coming of age, and the immigrant experience.

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Created and Performed by: Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty

Director, Dramaturg, and Contributing Writer: Alison De La Cruz

Script and Choreography: Cynthia Ling Lee and Shyamala Moorty

Music Composition: Derrick Spiva Jr., Ravindra Deo, Ian Smith

Recorded Musicians: Kamaljeet Ahluwalia, Ananya Ashok, Neal Bharati, Chelsea Chambers, Ravindra Deo, Aditya Ganesh, Seema Hanamsagar, Ramesh Kumar, Pankaj Misra, David Trasoff

Voiceovers: Alison De La Cruz, Karen Huie, Shyamala Moorty, Lyn Ross, Ova Saopeng

Animation: Adnan Hussain

Costume Design: Danielle A. Domingue

Technical Director & Lighting Designer: Kedar Lawrence

Developed in part through a long-distance Post Natyam Collective creative process. The development of Super Ruwaxi: Origins was supported in part by the City of Santa Monica Artist Fellowship Program, East West Players’ EVOKE New Works Festival, and Highways Performance Space’s BEHOLD!: A Queer Performance Series.

electronic press kit: SuperRuwaxi_epk.pdf

As We Babble On explores the pursuit of success, its costs, and whether the whole adulting thing is ever going to happen. Benji, a first-generation Asian American comic book artist, struggles in New York City when his dreams are pulled from under him and an ex-boyfriend resurfaces. As the unconventional path of his bestie Sheila takes a left turn, and his half-sister Laura unexpectedly finds herself on the fast track to success, each begins to unravel.

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This production, written by the winner of East West Players’ 2042: See Change Playwriting Competition, was directed by Alison M. De La Cruz in partnership with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and ran from May 31 to June 24, 2018.

From the Photo Above: Sachin Bhatt, Will Choi, Jiavani Linayao, Jaime Schwarz, and Bobby Foley star in East West Players’ production of Nathan Ramos’ As We Babble On, directed by Alison M. De La Cruz and produced in association with the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Photo by Michael Lamont.

Nan is the multi-generational family story of three Hawaiian women on the island of Oʻahu: Nan, the strong-willed matriarch; her estranged daughter Alice; and her feisty teenage granddaughter Maddi. Struggling with crippling disease, Nan is on the verge of making a life-altering decision, and gives Alice an impossible task — to assist her in ending her life.

NAN was part of Artists at Play Readings 2021. The NAN cast featured: Sara Malia Hatfield, Christine Jamlig, Lelea’e “Buffy” Kahalepuna-Wong, Kaliko Kauahi and Jorin Young.